Soner Barthoma is an independent researcher with a background in Political Science. He loves inter-disciplinary work within his broad research interest, among them migration, governance and discourse theories, European politics, Turkish foreign policy, late Ottoman period and genocide studies, history of the modern Middle East and its political regimes, identity politics, cultural heritage and revitalization of endangered languages. He previously co-coordinated the Horizon 2020 project RESPOND (www.respondmigration.com), and several other EU funded projects, amongst them the award winning Surayt-Aramaic Online project (www.surayt.com), which aimed at the revitalization of Surayt as an endangered language. Barthoma has edited three volumes, published various articles on identity, migration and integration related topics.